Queen Victoria
Maker
(printmaker)
1872-1949
(artist)
1872-1949
1872-1949
(artist)
1872-1949
Title
Queen Victoria
Date of Production
1897
Medium
lithographic reproduction from a coloured woodcut
Dimensions
Height: 23.9 cm
Width: 22.6 cm
Width: 22.6 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.5207
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer, 1990
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
William Nicholson made this striking commemorative portrait of Queen Victoria to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee of 1897. He based it on a photograph in the Illustrated London News. Despite its lack of pomp and grandeur, the ‘cottage loaf’ image of the Queen was much loved by the general public. For the publisher William Heinemann, the design was so daring he was unwilling at first to issue it. However, he later gave it place of honour in his first series of Twelve Portraits (1899).
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Exhibition History
Special Display - Characters and Caricatures, Late Victorian Illustration, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/02/2011-08/06/2011
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : printed : lower left & recto : : W. Nicholson. //
Inscription: inscription : written : lower centre margin & recto : later Witt inscription : Sir Wm. NICHOLSON / Queen Victoria //
Inscription: inscription : written : lower left margin & recto : later Witt inscription : Lithographic reproduction from original coloured woodcut //
Inscription: inscription : stamped : upper right margin & recto : later Witt inscription : WITT / LIBRARY //
Inscription: inscription : written : lower centre margin & recto : later Witt inscription : Sir Wm. NICHOLSON / Queen Victoria //
Inscription: inscription : written : lower left margin & recto : later Witt inscription : Lithographic reproduction from original coloured woodcut //
Inscription: inscription : stamped : upper right margin & recto : later Witt inscription : WITT / LIBRARY //
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